Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: msm: constify gpio_chip structure

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Tue Jul 11 2017 - 17:42:01 EST


On Tue 11 Jul 11:34 PDT 2017, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
[..]
> In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size
> and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output

"dec" is for "decimal" and is the sum of text, data and bss...

> of the size command, before and after the code change:
>
> before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 13129 2808 192 16129 3f01 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.o
>
> after:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 12839 2720 192 15751 3d87 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good catch, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Bjorn

> ---
> drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c b/drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c
> index 273badd..245ccfd 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c
> @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static void msm_gpio_dbg_show(struct seq_file *s, struct gpio_chip *chip)
> #define msm_gpio_dbg_show NULL
> #endif
>
> -static struct gpio_chip msm_gpio_template = {
> +static const struct gpio_chip msm_gpio_template = {
> .direction_input = msm_gpio_direction_input,
> .direction_output = msm_gpio_direction_output,
> .get_direction = msm_gpio_get_direction,
> --
> 2.5.0
>